posted 01-30- 01:07 PM               

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Another Question. I have attempted several times to move my FS from my drive C to Drive F. I have uninstalled it, then re-installed it on drive F. The problem occures when I try to add the patchs FS 1.0 and FS 1.5. I get a error message stating that it cant not find old file. I reassign the drive to the zip file before I open it.
Thanks Again
Sun Tzu

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posted 01-30- 01:21 PM            

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Im running SDOE of of drive H no problems.
Make sure you put the full path to the fightersquadron.exe in for the patches extraction directory. If you have the game installed to F:\SDOE\ make sure you put F:\SDOE\ in the box, not just F:

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posted 01-30- 02:17 PM               

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Sun Tzu. If I remember correctly, after you do the fresh install on the new F drive you need to start a game of FS (Fly a plane) then close FS and try to install the patches.

The best that I remember is that the file that is refered to as "old file" is not created until the first time you start the game.

I maybe wrong though. That was a long time ago.

Raider {GS}

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posted 01-30- 03:05 PM               

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Don't forget to change the entry

Media=c:\GAMES\FIGHTE~1\MEDIA

to whereever you have move the installation.
This is in the sdemons.ini in your fighter squadron folder.

Elric

[This message has been edited by Elric (edited 01-30-2000).]

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posted 01-30- 07:38 PM               

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SunTzu,
I just tried this myself after reading your post. I just installed another hard drive and tried to install FSSDOE on it and had the same problem. Falck's response is what fixed it for me though. I failed to specify a folder in the D drive directory when installing the game originally and I had the same error when installing the patch. I uninstalled and then reinstalled and specified D:\Fighter Squadron\ and wa la. Everything worked just fine.
Then after installing the 1.5 patch, I also experimented and tried to copy my Media folder off my C drive so I wouldn't have to unzip all of my addons again ( since I have another copy of FSSDOE on my C drive and the Media folder has all the addons-like plane packs and Meatwaters sound pack,etc.), but I discovered that I then had to insert the CD to play and the patch was supposed to eliminate that. Hence, "no can do" on just replacing the new Media folder with the old.
I just put the D drive's Media folder back and all works again. I do have to put all the addons back next though.
Just thought I let you know you weren't alone and if you haven't tried Falck's answer then that might be the problem.
AQ

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posted 01-31- 12:03 PM               

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Raider is right - You need to start SDOE once before you can Patch to 1.5

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posted 01-31- 10:57 PM               

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Man, You GUYS are GREAT, I have never had such a response from any board that I have been on. I thank each and everyone of yous. I will work on this first thing in the morning. My C drive is FULLLLL and I need to move some stuff fast !

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posted 02-01- 11:07 AM               

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OK, OK,.. I guess I am not playing with a FULL DECK. I attempted again to re-install my FS on F drive, I followed the instructions above, and tried to open the game to establish a "Old File" but can not get the disc to read until I install the patch.. so is this a catch 22 ? When I go back to C drive to install it, I have no problems. Here is what I am doing. I have it installed to F:\FS\SDOE then I take my FS 1.5 patch and try to install it to the same file, I get error "Old file not found".

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posted 02-01- 07:11 PM               

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SunTzu,
I'm trying to think of what might be going on here. This may be too simplistic- but try a simpler name for your folder on installation like F:\FighterSquadron\ and make sure you include the forward slash at the end. Maybe the forward slash included at the end does something? Who knows but it worked for me.
I also did not try and run the game before patching it because of the CD read bug that the patch fixes. On some of our systems, on the original install, that was the BIG bug when the game first came out. Mine was one of them. The 1.5 patch worked fine once I was more careful specifying a folder for the game when I reinstalled on my D drive. Give it another try carefully typing in the folder with both forward slashes.
Good luck.
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AQ

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posted 02-02- 10:01 AM               

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aaaaaaah, I bow to all you GREAT Aviators. I finally got it up and running after following all of your advise. The only problem that I did run into was I lost my 3D driver some how. I downloaded a new one and now it is up and running. I hope to see you all in the sky soon.

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